The Hollywood premiere of ultra-violent Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained has been cancelled due to the Sandy Hook shooting

The Weinstein Company studio decided it would be insensitive to hold the event so soon following the massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut.

The red carpet had been due to roll at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences on Tuesday evening, followed by a glitzy after-party at SkyBar.

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However the studio is going ahead with a private screening for the crew and cast, which includes including Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Kerry Washington, and their friends.

A company spokesman said: 'Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the tragedy in Newtown, CT, and in this time of national mourning we have decided to forgo our scheduled event.'

Its major premiere in New York premiere had already been held last week.

It is the fourth Hollywood-related event to be postponed or canceled since Friday.

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It follows gunman killing 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday.

Paramount Pictures held back the Pittsburgh premiere for its Tom Cruise sniper movie Jack Reacher from Saturday to Wednesday.

In addition a Monday evening screening in at New York's Lincoln Center he had been set to attend was canceled.

And while 20th Century Fox went ahead with a weekend screening of its new Bette Midler-Billy Crystal family comedy Parental Guidance in Los Angeles, it called off the press line and after party.

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Meanwhile other big films set for release in the coming weeks, which includes Les Miserables, This is 40 and The Guilt Trip, held their premieres last week.

The next big studio release likely to have a likely to have a glamour premiere is Gangster Squad, the Warner Bros. mob drama co-starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling, which is released on January 11.

That film already had its release date pushed after the July shooting during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado, because the studio needed time to excise a scene from the movie in which mobsters fire guns at people seated in a cinema.

A violent episode of hit Syfy show Haven was pulled on Friday night in the wake of the tragic Sandy Hook school shooting which left 28 people dead.

Then potentially sensitive episodes of Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show scheduled for broadcast by Fox on Sunday were also cancelled.

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